Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató